Royal Adelaide Hospital

In reply to Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (2 July 2015).

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries):

1. Expenditure to the end of June, 2015, was $169.9 million.

2. This decision was made at a joint meeting of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital Project Steering Committee and the EPAS Program Board.

3. The decision to transfer the remaining budget for the EPAS Program to the Department of Treasury and Finance was approved in October, 2014.

4. Total budget including contingency for the EPAS Program is $422 million. This is a 10-year total cost of ownership figure and not just the cost of configuration and deployment of the system.

Cabinet originally approved a budget of $408 million on 5 December, 2011. This was subsequently revised to $422 million to provide for inflationary indexation. .

5. No.

6. The EPAS Program budget for the 2015-16 financial year approved at the beginning of the financial year was $61.7 million. This budget was recently revised down to $54.1 million.